1664 in England

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1664 in England:

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Events from the year 1664 which occurred in the Kingdom of England.

[edit] Events

• 12 March - New Jersey becomes a colony of England.
• 24 September - Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam to an English naval squadron commanded by Colonel Richard Nicolls.
• Robert Hooke publishes Micrographia — its magnified images of a flea, a fly's eye and a plant cell turn the book into a best-seller.

[edit] Births

•  ?24 January - Sir John Vanbrugh (died 1726)
• 24 February (baptised) - Thomas Newcomen, inventor (d. 1729)
• 21 July - Matthew Prior, poet and diplomat (d. 1721)
• 3 September - Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford, peer and politician (d. 1723)
• 9 November - Henry Wharton, writer (d. 1695)
• probable - William Mountfort (d. 1692)
• Daniel Purcell, composer (d. 1717)

[edit] Deaths

• 20 January - Isaac Ambrose, diarist (born 1604)